The line-up for the SysPrac26 Systems Thinking Practitioner’s Conference is now under development – more speakers and workshop co-ordinators will be added when they are confirmed.
Confirmed presentations (A–Z by first presenter)
- Benjamin Wood & JJ van de Vyver - Closing the Loop: The Participatory and Cybernetic Founding of SCiO USA
- Bridie Collins - Ecosystem in a Local Government Setting
- Carola Ritzinger-Roll - From viability to measurability – Designing governance structures in highly complex and regulated organisational contexts
- Christine McNeal - Applying Soft Systems Methodology to Review Adult Skills Funding: Lessons from a First-Time Practitioner
- Dave Hall - What happens when a Governance Review becomes an inquiry into how an institution learns, decides, adapts and legitimises itself? Sub-title: Applying Systems Thinking in Practice to the Governance Review of a UK Chartered University
- Denis Fischbacher-Smith - How did it come to this?
- Dr Lesley Rowan - VSM - starting with a blank piece of paper
- Edward Hilton - From a Search for Intrinsic Value to Persistent Systems: The Deductive Development of TEQR
- Esmee Wilcox - How might understanding tempo help systemic action in government-community interactions?
- Gavin Roberts - Practice in the real world
- Gordon Niven - Variety Calculus: Cybernetic Methodology
- Helena Elisabeth Gallbo - Qualitative Differences in Attenuators: Country office to headquarters signalling in international companies
- Ivo Velitchkov - The Second Law of Technodynamics
- Jan De Visch - Beyond Sustainability
- Janne J. Korhonen - What Happens When Nothing Happens? A Metabolic Perspective on Organizational Change
- Jon Elphick - Mind the Gap…. in Weltanschauung needs to be NOT 2nd afternoon
- Kai-Uwe Radde - Internalized Liabilities (obvious but invisible)
- Kim Warren - Implementing the Self-Managing Enterprise with Agentic AI
- Mark Workman - Foresight Transitions
- Max Shen - Reducing Complexity or Relocating It? Applying VSM to NHS England’s Transition into DHSC
- Melissa Dawson - Adapting How We Practice in a Constantly Changing Working Environment
- Meriel Davies - Exploring Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management
- Mike Bourne - Governance of Complex Projects
- Olivia Horgan - Designing for the Conditions of Perception: What Embodied Experience Reveals About Systems Practice Under Pressure
- Patrick Hoverstadt, Ed Straw - AI + Systems Thinking = ???
- Roelien Goede - Reporting of a CSH Project
- Sacha Girling - Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Rich Pictures: Following the Situation Rather than the Method
- Simon Gough - Network Analysis and Boundary Critique
- Simon MacCormac and John Rogers - Getting into the Mess
- Steve Whitla - Systems, purpose and the pursuit of shared meaning
- Timo J. Hämäläinen - Ten complexity governance principles
- Virginia de La Hamayde - Editing the system, not the document: applying systems thinking to annual report production in large public organisations
- Virginia de La Hamayde - Apprentices without masters: Building systems thinking practice capability through collective inquiry in NHS England
Workshops
- Martin Günther - From Complexity Theory to Interaction Design: Designing for Emergence with Liberating Structures
- Tony Korycki - De-misting Critical Systems Heuristics
- Xavier Matieni - From Systems Thinking to Systems Judgement: Exploring a Neglected Capability in Management Practice